Combination potato-masher



-' (No Model.) v I A. OARTWRIGHT.

COMBINATION POTATO MASHER, KETTLE CLEANER, AND VEGETABLE FORK.

No. 604,965. Patenngd May 31,1898.

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" 'UNITED STATES PATENT OFFICE.

Ajtonzo H. OARTWRIGHT, or AMY, Wisconsin.

COMBINATlON POTA TO-MASHER, .KETTLE-CLEANER, AND VEGETABLE-FORK.

- SPECIFICATION forming part of Letters Patent No. 604,965, dated May 31, 1898. v 7 Application filed May 11,1897. Serial No. 635,983. 9 model.)

.To all whom it may cncerh.-'

' Beit known that I, ALONZO H. CARTWRIGHT,

iof Amy, in the county of Dunn and State of Wisconsin,have invented certain new'and useful Improvements in a Combination Potato- Masher, KettleCleaner, and Vegetable-Fork; and I do hereby declare the following to be a full, clear, and exact description of the invention, such as will enable others skilled in the art to which it appertains to make and use the .'same..

This invention relatesto a c'ombination implement; and it consists, essentially, of a series .of adjustable parts to arrange the device for a potato-masher, kettle-cleaner, and vegetable-fork adapted to be used separately.

The invention further consists of the de tails of construction and arrangement of the several parts whereby the handle for one implement serves at the same time as a sheath for another, as will be more fully hereinafter described and claimedin one article a series of culinary devices.

The object of theinvention is to form a combination implement wherein the parts may be quickly changed to accommodate the device'for difierent uses, and thereby assemble tato-masher and kettle-cleaner 5, engages a slot 2 at one end of the said sleeve 1. The said shank extends centrally from the potatomasher or kettle-cleaner-5, and when the pin 3 engages the said slot a bayonet-joint is formed and the device held intact with the 1 sleeve 1. The said combined potato-masher and kettle-cleaner is in the form of a disk having, convex sides converging to an outer edge 6, the one convex side being free to be used in. mashing potatoes, andthe edge 6 Fig. 2'

forms a scraper for cleaning pots and kettles.-

When the said disk'is arranged in connection with'the sleeve 1, the latter is grasped and 5 5 the entire device is vertically reciprocated or otherwise manipulated in crushing or mashing potatoes or other vegetables. lVhen the said device is to be used asa pot or kettle cleaner, the shank 4 is disconnected from the sleeve 1 and-may be grasped by the hand and conveniently used for the purpose without elongated projections which would interfere with this operation. The opposite slot 2 is adapted to receive a pin 7, projecting from the reduced portion 8 of the handle 9 of a fork 10, the said reduced portion 8 forming a shoulder 11, which snugly abuts against the adjacent end ofthe sleeve and enlarged part of the handle, and when the parts are so, arranged forms a flush joint with the sleeve.

The said fork consists of a piece of metal having a broadened end, which is triangularly bifurcated to form tines 12, and from the same extends a shank 13, merging into i era-l parts, as heretofore set forth, and also adapt the fork and its various parts to be constructed of flat metal, if desired. When it is desired to use the fork, the pin 7 is removed from the slot 2 and the entire device withdrawn from the sleeve. The parts are of i such dimension as to snugly fit within the sleeve andwill not be exteriorly exposed.

It is obviously apparent that many minor changes in the details of construction and ar rangement of the several parts might be made 1 and substituted without in the least depart- 9o ing from the nature or spirit of the invention.

Having thus described the invention, what isclaimed as new is-.-

1. A combined implement of the character set forth, comprising a sleeve, a combined potato-masher and kettle-cleaner adapted to be removably attached to one end of the sleeve,

combination with a sleeve, of a fork remov- In testimony whereof I have signed this ably mounted therein and having a portion specification in the presence of two subscrib- IQ of the handle adapted to lie flush with the said ing witnesses.

sleeve and a combined masher and scraper 7 having a shank or stem adapted to be insert- ALONZO CAR PWRIGHT' ed and secured in the opposite end of the Witnesses:

sleeve, substantially as and for the purposes CARL PIEPER, specified. 7 TIM. MURPHY. 

